Amazon Japan Opens PS3 Page

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250 bits and semiconductors to feature in Sony's next system.

By Anoop Gantayat

Amazon.com's Japanese arm has opened product pages for all the newest systems, among them the PSP, the Nintendo DS and, most surprisingly, the PlayStation 3. We understand the PSP and DS, as both are due out in Japan this year, but the PS3 hasn't even been officially unveiled! The retailer promises to send an e-mail to the interested when the system sees official announcement.

The page doesn't reveal any new facts about the PS3, although it does carry the same warning that all Amazon Japan videogame-related pages carry: no shipping outside of the land of the rising sun.

A listing at an online retailer nowadays tends to bring one thing with it: reader reviews. Four people have managed to write reviews for the PS3, giving it a rating out of five stars.

Comments one reviewer from Saitama, just to the North of Tokyo: "The PS3 is scheduled to have the 32-bit Cell CPU -- yes, the number of bits has gone down, but the system has abilities beyond the PS2. It seems that it will match up with super computers from just a while back. It will use Blu-ray disks, with volume about five to ten times that of DVD. Also, it will have a network adapter built in." This informed reviewer gave the system five stars.

Another reviewer doesn't seem so impressed with the system, giving it only three stars. He states, "It seems that the PS3's bit count will be about 250, down from the PS2's 500-plus bits. Also, it appears that the system will use semiconductors." Nineteen people apparently found this review informative.

The overall early rating for the PS3 is four stars.

IGN has Amazon set to e-mail us when the release for Sony's 250-bit, semiconductor-based system is confirmed and will pass the information on to you as quickly as possible.